[Yum] yum needs a --ignoresize option

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:19:08PM -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> On environments with tons of NFS mounts, something that Linux is doing
> more and more, some of those mounts might be hung.  rpm itself fails to
> install packages on such systems, as it can't get passed the stat that
> it tries to perform on each mounted filesystem.  rpm's "--ignoresize"
> argument is a life saver in these cases, as it skips the stat.  I'd
> rather risk a filesystem being full for an rpm install/upgrade than have
> a hung rpm/yum process and open rpm database.

Hmmm. Would it help if it only tried to stat filesystems on which it were
going to install files? (Presumably those are all going to be local
filesystems.)

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